Balders Hage was a ballcourt and public square in the centre of

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. The ballcourt was inaugurated on 1 January 1898 but was abandoned in 1909 when

Walhalla IP Walhalla Idrottsplats (short form Walhalla IP) was a sports stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden with a total capacity of 8,000. It was located near Korsvägen, on the site that currently is the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre. Walhalla IP was in ...

was built. The club

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was founded in Balders Hage, and played some of their matches there. Balders Hage is now part of the amusement park

Liseberg Liseberg is an amusement park located in Gothenburg, Sweden, that opened in 1923. It is one of the most visited amusement parks in Scandinavia, attracting about three million visitors annually. Among the noteworthy attractions is the wooden roll ...

,Lisepedia: 1945
accessed 2013-08-23 and the roller coaster

Balder Baldr (also Balder, Baldur) is a god in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, Baldr (Old Norse: ) is a son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, and has numerous brothers, such as Thor and Váli. In wider Germanic mythology, the god was kno ...

is located where Balders Hage once was.

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